The convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is due to be buried today, one day after dying a free man in Libya following a long battle with cancer that prompted his release from a Scottish prison on humanitarian grounds.

Megrahi was the only person convicted over the killing of 270 people in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland.

A Scottish court released him from prison in 2009, believing he had only months to live, sparking anger among the families of victims, most of them American.